The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: BANG!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (feat. Chris Wittyngham)
Thu, 13 Mar 2025
"I felt great until I came on this show." This Local Hour gets 4.5 out of 5 slurps. Today's cast: Dan, Amin, Chris, Jeremy, Jessica, and Mike. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: Why is the Local Hour rated 4.5 out of 5 slurps?
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Shadow Show. Shadow Show. Shadow Show. Shadow Show. Shadow Show. Shadow Show. Shadow Show. Shadowin' it.
Shadowin' it.
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Chapter 2: How does chaos affect the show's production?
I mean, the shadow show is going on right now while you're getting makeup, and that's the spirit of the shadow show. I just want you to know that we're on the air because you were yammering as if you didn't know that things had started around here. I didn't. And we've got a chaotic situation this morning because... In an overcrowded Miami, there's been a number of accidents.
And so a few people have not been able to get in. The pirate ship is in battered waters right now. And Jeremy, the entire time, is running in and out of the room in a panic, singing a song at the top of his lungs that no one else is singing with him.
That's right. Yeah, it's great. I'm really excited to get this one to you guys at some point, but that's kind of the environment here. Most mornings I'm showing up after taking about an hour and 45 minutes to drive in. Like this morning, I left my house at 635. I got here at 825. And then I'm running back and forth between studios trying to sing songs.
God bless football's happening in the other studio. I had to come into Studio A. I had to tell our director to stop testing audio because I needed to sing from several different distances from a microphone.
Yeah. So, I mean, that's the kind of professionalism he's bringing to work in the morning while you don't know that we're on air because you're yammering with Jess, the makeup artist. I wouldn't call it a lack of professionalism. No one said, all right, we're on air in three. Well, they were saying that in my headset. You were wearing headsets as well.
No, he didn't. I don't think your headphones were on. He did do something very considerate this morning, though. He did laundry for everybody.
like there's these blankets and jackets that people use because this the studio fluctuates a little bit but sometimes it's very cold and amin made the observation like no one's washed these things in several years ever not not to not just not the all the human secretions that have been on all those things but also willow just going around rubbing her ass on everything
And you guys are wrapping yourselves up. I think that's a bit incriminating to Willow. She's not here to defend herself. She's got a surrogate. Jess had me jealous last night. And I have not said this of the Knicks in 15 years. But Jess got to experience one of the most joyous things, which is to be awoken by the double bang.
This West Coast trip is killing me.
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Chapter 3: What are the challenges of watching West Coast games?
Well, he still doesn't know what to do with Rudy Gobert.
Amin, help me out, because, look, I'm ready to admit, I don't know Ball anymore. I used to. I used to know a lot of Ball. Now, don't know Ball. Is Rudy Gobert good or bad?
He's good situationally. Or I should say, that's about his bad situation. Thanks for clearing all that up.
That is the kind of expertise that you can get nowhere else. How did you not clear that up for him? Because what Mike says is strange. And At the crux of, like, can Denver beat Minnesota, Rudy Gobert stands in the way, except when the playoffs start and then the matchups make it so he can't play anymore.
Unless they match up against the greatest player maybe in the history of the game, and then he doesn't come off the court. He helps Minnesota a lot, as he helped Minnesota last night. So situationally bad, but situationally, if that is against a— Defending NBA champion with the best player maybe we've ever seen. Situationally good. Very confused by Rudy Gobert.
Denver's not defending.
No, I mean last year when they eliminated them. I know ball. You don't.
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fun basketball night last night and I came in today and I say to Jessica what is the age that someone starts checking out on West Coast games during the regular season because whatever you got to work in the morning and it's hard sometimes on Tuesday night to stay up till 1 in the morning so that you could watch Bridges beat
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Chapter 4: How does Thibodeau's coaching style impact the Knicks?
It's like strained a little bit. Almost crying.
Like your toes are digging into the ground.
That's going to get annoying. You got to be careful with that. All right. Use some judgment there. It's good, but it's also you pace yourself.
My heart's fluttering a little bit because like it's a little bit like, you know, I'm in shock still from waking up last night. So this is making me kind of go back into like the flutter zone.
This is the doctor with the hammer hitting your knee.
Exactly. I'm like, ah!
Or perhaps choppers for a Vietnam vet.
She got PTSD. Dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum.
I mean, Mike checked back in with the NBA last night, but I ask you, which is the bigger story, just in terms of in the weeds in basketball and the places that you find more interesting, that the Knicks would win at the buzzer on that shot by Bridges or that Bridges... A key piece, a key third piece, you know, who a lot of capital was invested in.
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Chapter 5: How are conference realignments affecting college sports?
Bang! Professionalism. So, there are no OLIs. Number five. OG Ananobi, Josh Hart, and Mikkel Bridges. Number four, O.G. Ananobi, Josh Hart, and Jalen Brunson. Number three, Carl Towns, Josh Hart, and Mikkel Bridges. Number two, O.G. Ananobi, Mikkel Bridges, and Jalen Brunson.
And the number one most played three-man rotation in the entire NBA, Bam Adebayo, no, psych, it's Josh Hart, Mikkel Bridges, and Jalen Brunson.
Had to go in there for a second. Okay, so what is the point? The larger point that you made so artfully there is... They play a lot. Right. And when they get to the playoffs and lose to Cleveland, people will say it's because the tires fell off.
I don't think that's why. I don't think that's why they'll lose to Cleveland. They're just not. What?
They won't lose to Cleveland.
They'll beat Cleveland?
They won't see Cleveland.
Oh, OK.
You guys have them play Cleveland? What are you doing?
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Chapter 6: What are the implications of NIL on college athletes?
No.
Detroit basketball. Oh, that would be so funny if Cade Cunningham walks into Madison Square Garden and says, It's mi casa. I've not seen this, Amin.
Laugh at the Knicks, Amin. Wyatt? Has been around for a long time. No, no, no. Wait a minute. You're predicting now that this Knicks team, that it's going to fall apart and it's not going to feel the way the last... The last two seasons were feel good at the end. You're predicting that this team is going to disappoint? Well...
I don't think they're going to disappoint because I think they're achieving exactly what they're supposed to achieve. But the reality is they're almost certainly going to be the three seed. Boston is certainly going to be the two seed. So New York sees probably Detroit, maybe Indiana, maybe Milwaukee in the first round. All three of those teams have given them problems.
And then if you beat them, then you get to see the Boston Celtics who have— ransacked them, ransacked them, ransacked them, right? They have not even looked close to competitive with Boston. It's going to feel, for Knicks fans, way more disappointing. Last year, gritty seven-game series loss to the Pacers, right? The year before that, gritty loss to the Heat, right?
Like, oh, clawing and all that. This one is going to feel like, oh, we got smacked around. It wasn't even close.
After they made some major moves in the offseason. Which is why enjoy the regular season and the double bangs while you can have them.
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Chapter 7: Why was the Kansas vs. Minnesota baseball game unusual?
And Jessica brings up a great point, right? The major moves of which... The guy who's complaining about playing too much is the guy they gave up five first-round picks for, right? And that's why when everyone's like, the power of friendship, and these guys all went to Villanova, it's the boys back together again. You don't overpay for a Corolla. It's a great car. It's reliable.
It's got great gas efficiency. It is going to last forever. The parts, if it breaks down, are relatively cheap. But you don't pay $100,000 for it, even if you know it has gold bricks in the back.
How much aluminum's in it? Just saying we're headed that. It's a tariff joke. It's a tariff joke. It's a tariff joke.
Thanks, Mike. Bang!
I can't do it the same way.
That was like a ghost. No, that was like a bang.
That was just a good spot for a bang. A ghost hit a three-pointer? I was hoping Chris would meet me there, guys. He's saying one thing.
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